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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">UX Book Club PDX is talking about Erving Goffman's classic "Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior"</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2014-09-04T18:00:00" datetime="2014-09-04T18:00:00">Thursday, September 4, 2014 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2014-09-04T20:00:00" datetime="2014-09-04T20:00:00">8pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202393905'><span class='fn org p-name'>Mozilla</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1120 NW Couch St., Suite 320</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1120%20NW%20Couch%20St.,%20Suite%20320,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>We're following on from July's excellent discussion on Sam Ladner's <em>Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector</em> with a classic from sociologist Erving Goffman.</p> <p><em>"Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior"</em> is one of several classic books by Goffman, and one that is studied by UX researchers. The book is a collection of six essays: "On Face-work", "Embarrassment and Social Organization", "The Nature of Deference and Demeanor", "Alienation from Interaction", "Mental Symptoms and Public Order", and "Where the Action Is". If you want to brush up on your understanding of people, this is one of the books for you.</p> <p>If you haven't finished the book, but still want to come along and talk, the please do—we'd love to see you.</p> </div> </div>